Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, while the D200 is a great camera, i find it less satisfying to use and the images not up to the Leica quality i get with my R8, or SL. Since the M8 has arrived it has sat largely unused, although i have picked it up occasionally, and the wife used it the other day to shoot her flowers that are finally blooming. As for the m8 workshop, you may find the m8 portion a bit basic, but the comment and tips from users and the instructor/pro do have some good info. i found the c1le portion more useful, not being a well versed sw person. also to be able to use the different lenses was worth it to me. they do bring 15 or so m8's to play with for those who do not have one or did not bring theirs. you alsohave the opertunity to print out some of your images and get a good feelof the image properties the camera is capable of. gene -------------- Original message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>: -------------- > > > > On 5/4/07 12:42 PM, "Jeff S. Matsler" typed: > > > Hey Mark, > > > > Has the S5 finally been released. I notice that review still has a > > release > > date of "early 2007" and some of the details remain listed as "unknown". > > > > I had an S2 - my first DSLR. An awesome camera with the one flaw of > > being > > way to slow for sports photography - which is what I was using it for. > > :-( Traded it in for a D1H and then a D2H. Those had awesome speed, but > > the pictures were crisper from the Fuji. > > > > I've been waiting for the S5 specs to come out - and / or the camera > > itself > > hit the market. It's the one camera that might convince me to buy > > another > > Nikon DSLR. > > > > Jeff M > > > > > The Nikon D200 is the best camera I've ever shot with. I think of it as a > Leica camera which shoots Nikon glass and for some inexplicable reason > says > Nikon on it. Its solid feel and handling also cant be beat. Magnesium > fights > for you! 12 ways. > Based on the number of keepers I've gotten with it in the past year since > I've had it. > Ikons with my Nikon. It is a superb picture making machine second to none > in > terms of APS-2 format. > So much so that I'm having a hard time forking over the 5 grand to get my > much loved and exalted and priced Leica glass I'm accumulated over a > decade > with most my earnings going again. > > I'm almost more prone to just get some ZF glass and call it a day. > Say the Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF. > > But I may to the M8 workshop on the 10th in Manhattan and see what that > does. I'm also finding film to be more viable. I've got film camera bodies > going again. > > > Or shoot with my Leica Zeiss D200. > http://www.dphotonews.com/shownews.php?idVesti=85 > > Love that deeply recessed glass. > A clean cool quarter inch away. > For extra flavor. > > A 75mm f2 I can live with that. > I can LOCTITE that puppy right on the camera. Call it my Zeiss Nikon. > > The question is? > Red or green? > > Green may lock it but Red may make it GO BACK IN TIME! > > http://www.action-electronics.com/loctite.htm > > Mark Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information